Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
9to5Mac reports Apple's description of the iOS 27 AI dictation: it transcribes the voice more precisely and handles capitalisation and punctuation as you speak. The report gives Apple's claim and no measured error rate.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“As well as transcribing your voice more precisely, it also handles capitalisation and punctuation on the fly.”
Here's how to turn on iOS 27's new AI dictation (Advanced Dictation Preview), 9to5Mac, 2026, Article text, paragraph on the accuracy of the new dictation.
Open the original- What it measures
- Describes the Advanced Dictation Preview in the first iOS 27 developer beta (June 12, 2026), which runs on iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air, and is switched off by default in the beta.
- What it does not show
- This is Apple's own description, relayed by a news site. No independent test is quoted, and the article gives no word error rate. The feature was in beta when the article was written.